... intelligence and security services- it saves time and endless repetition of a mouthful. Or should I say: I use the term security agencies in place of the intelligence, security and surveillance services, MI6, MI5, GCHQ. Or should I say: I use the term security agencies to stand for the intelligence, security, surveillance and disinformation services? Because disinforming the British citizen is certainly a current aim of at last two of those bodies. Or should it be the intelligence, security, surveillance, disinformation and fucking-up-the-lives-of-certain-pe ople-the-state-finds-awkward-or -irritating services? Because that, too, is an aim of at least one of the 'security agencies'. To that last category I will return ...

... . I've long wanted to put MK-ULTRA research behind me. I really do not want to be thinking the way I'm thinking. Hopefully, a cooler head such as Jim Hougan's or Valentine's can talk me out of the perhaps silly theory I'm starting to form.... I have to congratulate you on your brilliant catch regarding that great disinformation ploy, 'You can see these documents, but cannot photocopy them.' I wish to hell more American ufologists could see your piece. Hell, I wish someone would show it to Linda Howe- a terrific lady who is just too damned credulous. You should know that the look-but-don't-take ploy was also used on Bill Moore himself. ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last| Contents| Next Issue 40 Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about the son of Colonel Gaddafi. (1) The story was written by Con Coughlin and attributed to a 'British banking official'. As the trial revealed, said official came from MI6, who had been supplying Coughlin with material ...

... with this writer, Ellsberg admitted to having had the affair with Germaine. He also revealed that Seguin had actually put a gun to his head and warned him to stay away from the woman they both loved. But Ellsberg vehemently denied that either Scotton or Conein had intervened on his behalf. Their stories, he said, were standard CIA disinformation, in this case designed to make him seem beholden to former CIA comrades, and thus cast doubt on his motives for leaking The Pentagon Papers. Be that as it may. Ulterior motives In the abstract, it seems logical to conclude that one of the conflicting stories hides an ulterior motive. And in a search of the recorded ...

... (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last| Contents| Next Issue 40 Sources Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false- were in fact disinformation. Documentsapparently from former Soviet archives seem to show that the Soviets knew in 1953 that the allegations were false and the 'evidence' had been fabricated. The allegations were the climax to a long series of charges, started before the Korean War, by the Korean and Chinese governments about US intentions to make 'bacteriological weapons'. I have ...

... case had run since 1997 when LM had published an article claiming that ITN had 'fooled the world' with its picture of emaciated Bosnian Muslim men looking out through barbed wire. ITN claimed they had discovered a concentration camp. LM claimed they had distorted the truth through a highly emotive image reminiscent of World War 2 camps. A layer of disinformation masked the truth. LM pleaded to the outside world and presented themselves as the David against the Corporate Media Goliath of ITN. The case against British Libel law is certain. The laws are regressive repressive and authoritarian. They defy freedom of speech and have to be radically reformed. All they do is protect the rich and powerful against ...

... wanting to strike against Allende (interestingly, Pinochet is not one of those named): the most likely candidate at that time, General Viaux, was promised 'our full support' but warned against premature action liable to backfire. Meanwhile the CIA agents and their friends in Chile were to deploy 'propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence or disinformation, personal contacts, or anything else your imagination can conjure' to secure the downfall of the Allende regime.(4) Of course Allende's left-wing government, the first Marxist regime both to be democratically elected and to observe the principles of liberal democracy, had many enemies in the Chilean business and land-owning communities as well as in the ...

... victory over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential race.' Another dumb Clinton On the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations between some of the US's leading purveyors and students of conspiracy theories. Mark Pilkington of FT introduces the conversation with the comment that 'Adrift amongst seas of information and disinformation, claim and counter-claim, a detached, more fortean approach to conspiracy research appears increasingly relevant' (emphasis added). For which, apparently, read: give up worrying if it's true or not. How else to interpret Robert Sterling, who runs the e-zine The Konformist, saying this of William Cooper, author of Behold a ...

... himself a keen and fairly experienced parachutist with about 300 jumps'; and we had a news cutting from the Belfast Telegraph of 18 March 1973 of Wallace with a caption which read 'Captain Colin Wallace, one of a team of parachutists who jumped in with birthday greetings...' The whisper down the phone was dismissed by us as disinformation, a smear. I had been expecting something of the sort, though had not thought of the parachuting aspect as the likely area. (There were others that summer, one of which duly appeared in The Independent.) Indeed, in view of the material we had which refuted the allegation, it seemed peculiarly inept. However ...